In summary, a significant reduction of the background level is obtained in the 10 keV neutron energy range for the measurement of the \(^{56}\) Fe(\(n,\gamma \) ) reaction with i-TED, when compared to state-of-the-art C\(_6\) D\(_6\)  detectors. An additional background suppression effect is achieved after implementing selections in the \(\gamma \) -ray imaging domain, although the counting statistics are at the limit to extract accurate information. The results obtained here are limited, to a large extent, due to the limitations in hardware and reconstruction software used in these tests. We expect to improve these aspects both by means of additional A-modules as shown in Ref. [1]}, and by means of improved position-reconstruction techniques [2]}. The expected performance of the final i-TED detector after these recent upgrades is discussed in the following Sec. . In addition, this Section explores alternative analysis algorithms, which help to mitigate significantly the limitation in detection efficiency related to the imaging cuts.
